Cinematic Western-Inspired Songs

About this episode

Steve explores songs connected to the western film genre, featuring various artists and their cinematic influences.

This week, Steve picked songs connected in some way with the genre of film known as "westerns". Either they directly reference the west such as being a cowboy, or they use samples from famous western films...or they use familiar cinematic western film score tropes that were introduced by such composers as Ennio Morricone. In this show you will hear Thin Lizzy, Hoodoo Gurus, Eighth Route Army, The Shadows, Big Audio Dynamite, Richard Barone, The Boys [UK], The Godfathers, Calexico, Ennio Morricone, Federale, Kool Moe Dee, Hank Marvin, Spindrift, Los Straitjackets, The Spacemen, Gene Pitney. On most podcast platforms. Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadio Instagram: SuburbanUnderground #newwave #altrock #alternativerock #punkrock #indierock

People in this episode

Host: Steve Poschmann

Topics covered

• western film music
• cinematic songs
• cowboy themes
• film score tropes
• music analysis

Keywords

• western music
• film scores
• Ennio Morricone
• cowboy songs
• music podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Thin Lizzy, Hoodoo Gurus, Eighth Route Army, The Shadows, Big Audio Dynamite, The Boys [UK], The Godfathers, Calexico, Federale, Spindrift

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